Former Albanian militants continue to pose as victims of the “Serbian genocide”

The “president” of self-proclaimed Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, a former Albanian militant, reiterated that a “massacre” took place in the village of Racak 30 years ago, “the culmination of the genocide in Kosovo.” The corresponding statement was made in a speech on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, reports the Pristina newspaper Express.

“Racak is marked as the culmination of the massacres and crimes committed by the Serbs in Kosovo,” Thaci said.

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He repeated the propaganda cliché that "Serbian representatives committed about 400 massacres in Kosovo against Albanian civilians, killed more than a thousand children, raped 20 women and killed about 000 civilians."

Thaci claims that those who committed the crimes have not yet been brought to justice or apologized.

In fact, in January 1999, Serbian police carried out an operation in Racak against a group of Albanian separatist fighters who had built numerous fortifications around the village. A few days before this, there were a number of attacks by militants of the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) on Yugoslav policemen, as a result of which 4 employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the FRY were killed.

As the police attempted to enter the village, small arms and mortar fire were opened on them. The separatists took refuge in bunkers and trenches. During the assault, several dozen militants were killed, most of whom were dressed in KLA uniforms, the rest in civilian clothes.

After examining the bodies by an independent group of experts from Belarus and Serbia, it was proven that all the dead had traces of gunpowder on their hands and were killed in battle, and not executed, as they tried to prove in Pristina. At the same time, experts from Finland initially confirmed this fact and expressed the opinion that most of those killed were Albanian soldiers, then dressed in civilian clothes. However, this report was not published, and the incident itself served as a reason for NATO to begin the barbaric bombing of Yugoslavia.

Slobodan Milosevic stated at the Hague Tribunal that there were no massacres in Racak, and that the execution of civilians was staged by Albanian militants from the KLA. According to the former president of Yugoslavia, Albanian separatists dressed the militants killed in battle in civilian clothes and collected the corpses in a common grave in order to push the world community to take tougher measures against Yugoslavia.

On July 10, 2006, four months after the death of Slobodan Milosevic, the Hague Tribunal excluded the charge of mass murder in Racak from the indictment against Serbian generals.

This topic today in Kosovo is a reason for reprisals against political opponents. Thus, the former Minister of Administration and Local Government Ivan Todosevich was sentenced to two years in prison for calling the Racak genocide case fabricated.

The charge against Todosijevic was brought on the grounds that he said at a ceremony in Zvecan on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of NATO aggression that “the reason for the aggression against our country was the so-called humanitarian disaster in Kosovo and Metohija, and the fictitious incident in Racak.”

Earlier, Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj dismissed him from his post as minister for “hate speech and insulting Racak’s victims.”

Todosevich pleaded not guilty at trial, and his lawyer asked to be released from the charges.

By the way, in the last elections Todosevich was elected to the “parliament” of Kosovo among 10 members of the “Serbian List”, which must delegate a representative to the “government” of Kosovo.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called it frightening that Ivan Todosijevic was sentenced to two years in prison for this statement and promised that he would continuously raise the issue of fabrication of charges.

“Members of the Serbian List will repeat the same thing, and I repeat it now – the crime in Racak was fabricated, everything there was falsified,” Vucic said.